During the London Design Festival the first Rabih Hage/Piet Hein Eek pop-up store was launched in a space large enough to highlight a wide variety of Eek’s work. The temporary shop will be open through October 31 (1-5 Exhibition Road, London) and it will be the biggest solo showcase of this highly acclaimed Dutch designer. [...]

These images where shot for ‘Pretty Dutch’ an exhibition about Dutch porcelain from the 18th century. Unfortunately the exhibition is no longer open but the gorgeous images are definitely worth showing.

(images from Studio Aandacht)

During the Dutch Design Week 2007 in Eindhoven Anna ter Haar, graduate of the Design Academy, showed her graduation project ‘Buitenbeentje‘. Buitenbeentje, which is Dutch for odd man out, is a research on the qualities of poly-urethane resin. Anna is fascinated by everything that differs the normal: the odd man out, the freaks. Anna: ‘Certain [...]

As a graduate from the Design Academy, Croatian born Ivana Borovnjak showed her work during the Dutch Design Week. A Dictionary of Cups is part of her project Logic of Language vs. World of Objects. In this thesis Ivana articulates a theory of how language as a communication system can affect designing process, and become [...]

Eat Drink Design is a temporary restaurant inside a greenhouse set up in Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week. Dutch designers have decorated the interior and every night one of the designers is link to a leading Dutch chef to prepare a stylish dinner event.

Every evening, a new duo will be presenting the result of [...]

My favorite exhibition during the Dutch Design Week is the Graduation Galleries. Here graduates from the acclaimed Design Academy show their graduation work to the public. The talent of these young designed and the creativity and originality of their work amazes me every year! Below you can see some of the designs spotted at this [...]

A great exhibition that I visited yesterday at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven yesterday, was the one by Made by Eight. Made by Eight are eight graduated designers from the Utrecht School of Arts: Robert Jan Snoeks, Liane Gaemers, Nienke Hansen, Shanna Deurloo, Stina Feldt, Marlous de Roode, Wendy Klaver en Anne ten Donkelaar. [...]

Last Sunday Droog organized a lunch with the name Self Food Factory. It wasn’t a lazy Sunday afternoon for the 40 guests who visited this do-it-yourself lunch, which was designed and executed by 5.5. designers. Everybody had to work for their food, but at the same time had the chance to eat from the unique [...]

Are you wondering how our homes will look in the future? Trend guru Li Edelkoort is one of the world’s most important trend setters of this moment and her trend predictions are followed by design companies and major brands world wide. With the exposition ‘Museum House, a choice of Lidewij Edelkoort’ in the Art Pavilion [...]

Dutch designer Sigrid Calon presented her latest work at the Dutch Design Week 2006 in Eindhoven. I especially love her colorful tea towels which can be ordered (€ 10) by sending Sigrid an email.

Sigrid also designed the DahliaShowWall which can be used as a room divider.

One of the most innovative and original designs at the Dutch Design Week’s Graduation Galleries 2006 was in my opinion Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk. This young designer has created a lamp that develops like a living organism. Similar to living organisms, this lamp contains all the essential “mechanisms” that will enable it to develop. [...]

Last Saturday I headed off to Eindhoven to visit the Dutch Design Week 2006. This event, organised for the fifth year, is the largest design event in the Netherlands. During the week of October 21-29, the latest developments in the field of design were shown in a stimulating and inspiring way by means of a [...]